Poetry About Farming

By John Kulm

This short eBook has my most requested poetry on the topic of farming, written for the stage and performed in comedy clubs, county fairs, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, and The Peoples' Poetry Gathering in Manhattan. My proudest moment was when my father had me recite a few of these poems to friends while we sat in a booth at the café in the Quincy Livestock Auction Yard. A group of farmers, ranchers and cowboys gathered around the booth and their laughter meant as much to me as the applause at any concert hall. The twelve poems in this edition can be had for the price of a post card.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Kulm
• Release date: Jul 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311027344

John Kulm

I've been called an outsider artist, a Jungian and a pseudo-Jungian. I like all those labels even if it's just persona. As an intuitive introvert, I'm reclusive and happiest alone working on creative projects. I come out of my shell occasionally to do public readings. Some venues where I've read include these: - The People's Poetry Gathering, Lower Manhattan - The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, NV - Lollapalooza - The Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia - The international Finn Fest - The Impala, Los Angeles

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Poetry About Farming

By John Kulm

Copyright 2015 John Kulm

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Table Of Contents

A Shovel

The Wheat Harvester

A Giant Four-Point Buck

The Disappearing West

Boomers

Cemetery

Farm Town

Next Year Country

Sixteen Minutes Of Hail

Not A Farmer

As My Dad Used To Say

You Are The Light

A Shovel

Just give me one thing:

A double-aught shovel,

as sophisticated as Roy Clark in a Calvin Klein ad

pickin’ and grinnin’ his way across the bare-blazing belly-buttons of the anorexic too-cool-to-smile fashion toothpicks.

A shovel so fine I can feed the world

like a giant spoon scooping grain into the mouth of global consumerism.

Eat your vegetables you little complainer.

A shovel:

The kind those hat wearing line-dancers on The Nashville Network scowl at.

Garth Brooks wannabes, whining,

A cowboy doesn’t shovel dirt. I stay on my horse.

Stay on your horse then, singing your git along little dogie